Middle East in the Twentieth Century.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (301 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Britain and the Arabs, 1914- 20 -- Britain, France, and the Zionists, 1914- 20 -- The Palestine Quagmire, 1920-39 -- The Emergence of Transjordan, 1920- 28 -- France, Syria, and the Emergence of Lebanon, 1920- 36 -- Britain and Iraq, 1918- 39 -- Transition in the Arabian Peninsula, 1910- 36 -- The British Protectorate in Egypt, 1914- 38 -- Turmoil in Transcaucasia, 1917- 21 -- Developments in Iran, 1914- 37 -- The World War II Period, 1939- 45 -- The Geopolitics of Oil, 1914- 47 -- Prelude to the Arab- Israeli Conflict, 1945- 48 -- The First Arab-Israeli War and Its Aftermath, 1948- 52 -- The Suez Crisis, 1951- 57 -- The Nasserist Era, 1952- 67 -- Inter-Arab Rivalry and the 1967 War -- The Torturous Road to Camp David, 1967- 79 -- Crisis and Conflict in Lebanon, 1970- 85 -- Conflict in the Persian Gulf Region, 1973- 99 -- At Century's End -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.